[py-dev] Holger and RFC 2646

[François Pinard]

[holger krekel]

> [François Pinard]

>> In a recent message, I remarked about those spurious spaces at end of 
>> lines in messages from Holger, and understood since then those spaces 
>> come from RFC 2646 and "format=flowed" specification.

>he, that's good to know :)  Some people e.g. in the pypy-group have 
>been complaining about this already.

After your emails, I decided to experiment "f=f" for my own outgoing 
email, and see what happens.  I use Mutt and Vim here.  Mutt does 
nothing special to flow incoming email, so this is not useful to me, but 
maybe it could be useful for some of my correspondents nevertheless.  It 
was really a simple matter to setup.  Within  ~/.mutt/muttrc, I added 
this line:

    set text_flowed

and within ~/.vim/ftplugin/mail.vim, these lines:

    set formatoptions+=aw
    set textwidth=72
    map Q gqap

The last one was needed, in my case, to override this ~/.vimrc line:

    map Q !appar<CR>}

as par does not understand "f=f" conventions, while Vim does.




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